Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation by Christoph Noe

Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation by Christoph Noe rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a survey of several up and coming young artists working today in Mainland China (this book is NOT about artists who have matured and attained international fame like Xu Bing or Cai Guo Qiang). Going into this, I was…

Notes from “Something Borrowed, Something True”

I was just at the ICA again today. The Boston AIGA organized an all-day event at the ICA to promote dialogue around Shepard Fairey’s work and its place in society. The event was titled “Design as Social Agent” (there was a silly point during a talk where Elliot Earls could not remember what it was…

How to Make Cocktail Sauce

This is a hard one. Ready? Really this is quite an amazing discovery, because cocktail sauce is something I always thought you had to go buy because it had some patented top-secret ingredient to it. Except it turns out that it’s just ketchup and horseradish (or, in this case, wasabi). What if tonkatsu sauce turned…